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Historical Event on 11/29/1926
Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/2/1990 | DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra. |
| 10/25/1983 | Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 12/20/2000 | Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announces the Government's decision to extend J&K ceasefire till January 26, 2001. |
| 1/10/1616 | Sir Thomas Row, first English Ambassador, submitted his identification to Emperor Jahangir at Ajmer. |
| 5/31/1996 | J. H. Patel sworn in Karnataka CM. |
| 9/6/1905 | Satyacharan Chaterjee, great Indian Geologist, was born. |
| 9/24/1997 | I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister, formally stated India's claim to permanent membership of Security Council at the U.N. General Assembly meeting. |
| 10/2/1944 | Gandhiji was presented a purse of Rs 110 lakhs (£ 8,25,000) for Kasturba Memorial on his 75th birthday. |
| 2/1/1942 | 17 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees. |
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